No urgency over pollution


Alarming state: A man riding a motorbike amid smoke from a burning garbage dump on the outskirts of Hanoi. In the last three months, the Vietnamese capital has regularly topped a list of the world’s most polluted major cities, leaving its nine million residents struggling to breathe and see through a thick blanket of smog. — AFP

Toxic smoke billows from a bur­n­ing mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen’s farm in Hanoi, a city battling an alarming air pollution surge that the communist government appears in no hurry to fix.

In the last three months, the Vietnamese capital has regularly topped a list of the world’s most polluted major cities, leaving its nine million residents struggling to breathe and even to see through a thick blanket of smog.

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